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That's one of my favorite episodes! I adore Eevee... I like how Mikey liked his Eevee the way it was and decided not to evolve it. It was cool how Eevee was really strong against Team Rocket! I love this episode a lot. ^^

This was one of those great episodes because it showed off alot of Pokémon which were rare to see back in the day, namely all of those stone-induced evolutions... I remember Poliwrath jumping into a fountain, and then a Cloyster surfaces beside a Starmie and A victreebel. Good times...

I also seem to remember Team Rocket doing very well, and the phrase "Team Rocket, champions of the world" comes to mind...

Definitely one of the better episodes for sure.I like how Mikey was happy with his evee how it was,and the battle was absolutely amasing.Team Rocket was actually very good for a change in battle and it was a pleasure to see all three evee evolutions battling.I was also impressed by evees strenght which he showed in this episode and from that episode i started to like evee.It was also interesting to see Mistys horsea ingenuity to leave the tracks with ink spurt to make easier for Ash and others to find him and other pokemon kidnapped by team rocket.

Last edited by pokemon fan 132; 18th June 2008 at 3:58 PM.
Reason: Making corrections.

For a long time, I thought the anime writers had some sort of bias against evolving your pokemon, especially with stones. Seeing a puny shrimp of an Eevee take down Team Rocket when its three evolutions lost just felt, to me, like a major cop-out. No wonder I don't like Kanto that much...

That was pretty much how I felt about this episode too. I enjoyed the fact that it served as the anime debut for Eevee and his then-current evolutions, but at the same time, it kind of annoyed me how much of a negative press it seemed to give stone evolution. I wasn't at all bothered by Mikey's decision not to evolve his Eevee at all, since it honestly seemed like the most viable solution to his problem of which of his three brothers' footsteps he should follow in. Rather, what bothered me was the vibe that that conversation between Ash, Brock and the Eevee Brothers gave off that those who evolve their pokemon using stones do so because they are basically selfish and care far more about getting stronger battlers than they do the feelings of their pokemon. It irked me because quite a significant percentage of my favourite pokemon (including Eevee's original Red/Blue evolutions) could only be obtained through stone evolution. Granted, Ash and Brock were almost certainly never going to evolve Pikachu and Vulpix, but it turned into something of an ethical debate, and when Ash (or maybe Brock...I haven't seen it in years) stated that "we just don't evolve our pokemon that way", it was all too obvious whose side the writers wanted you to sympathise with.

I did at least take some consolation in the indication that, though it was never explicitly stated, Misty clearly did not share her friends' biases against stone evolution. She owned a Starmie, after all, and did state that if no one had claimed Mikey's Eevee, she would have kept it and evolved it into a Vaporeon. Shame she never actually got a Vaporeon of her own at any point in the series (at least that I know of).

I love this episode because all evolutions of Eevee and the other stone-evolvers are here. This caught my chance to learn how an Eevee can evolve into three different Pokemon when I didn't know it had three known evolutions in the past. But with this episode, it'll make a good reference to others who needs help on acquiring three Eevee evolutions.

I liked this episode. Seeing my favorite multi-type evolution of Kanto for the 1st time was really cool. Vaporeon is my fav. Kanto evolution of Eevee! It was cool to see Mikey's brothers accept his decision about not evolving Eevee.